Welcome to The OCD Bee
This website is aimed to inform, support and connect those suffering with OCD as well as educate those interested in finding out about this disorder. As a person with OCD, I understand how isolating the illness can be so I felt passionate about creating a place where you don't feel alone.
Let's work as a community to recover together and spread awareness as we go.
OCD is a bee and we are the beekeepers.
Don't spend your life afraid of getting stung, accept the possibility and move on for a better quality of life.
Let's work as a community to recover together and spread awareness as we go.
OCD is a bee and we are the beekeepers.
Don't spend your life afraid of getting stung, accept the possibility and move on for a better quality of life.
What is OCD?
OCD stands for Obsessive-Compulsive Disorder which is a diagnosable mental illness where a person has obsessions and compulsions, it's all in the name!
Obsessions are unwanted unpleasant thoughts, images or urges that keep entering a person's mind and these cause the sufferer feelings of anxiety, disgust or uneasiness. Because of the feelings the obsessions cause, the sufferer will act compulsively to try and prevent the emotions that are carried with their obsessions.
Compulsions are repetitive behaviours or mental rituals that the person feels that they MUST carry out. They can either be 'overt' which means that you can see them (washing, tapping, checking, adjusting) or 'covert' which are mental compulsions (visualisation, neutralisation, counting, repeating of words).
Often people could be mistakenly diagnosed with a form of OCD called 'Pure-O' just because their compulsions are covert. Pure-O is OCD basically without the C, so it's obsessional but doesn't have compulsions.
Specific types of OCD include:
If you feel like you may suffer from OCD, talk to your GP or seek help privately. You do not have to fight this alone and you do not have to wait until it gets any worse. The sooner you reach out, the better.
Obsessions are unwanted unpleasant thoughts, images or urges that keep entering a person's mind and these cause the sufferer feelings of anxiety, disgust or uneasiness. Because of the feelings the obsessions cause, the sufferer will act compulsively to try and prevent the emotions that are carried with their obsessions.
Compulsions are repetitive behaviours or mental rituals that the person feels that they MUST carry out. They can either be 'overt' which means that you can see them (washing, tapping, checking, adjusting) or 'covert' which are mental compulsions (visualisation, neutralisation, counting, repeating of words).
Often people could be mistakenly diagnosed with a form of OCD called 'Pure-O' just because their compulsions are covert. Pure-O is OCD basically without the C, so it's obsessional but doesn't have compulsions.
Specific types of OCD include:
- Contamination
- Responsibility
- Relationship
- Religion
- Harm
- 'Just right'
- Ethical
- Hyperawareness
- Sexuality
- Pedophile
If you feel like you may suffer from OCD, talk to your GP or seek help privately. You do not have to fight this alone and you do not have to wait until it gets any worse. The sooner you reach out, the better.